CHAPTER 17 – Industrial Supremacy

1. SOURCES OF INDUSTRIAL GROWTH

a. Industrial Technologies

b. The Airplane and the Automobile

c. Research and Development

d. The Science of Production

e. Railroad Expansion

f. The Corporation

g. Consolidating Corporate America

h. The Trust and the Holding Company

2. CAPITALISM AND ITS CRITICS

a. The “Self-Made Man”

b. Survival of the Fittest

c. The Gospel of Wealth

d. Alternative Visions

e. The Problems of Monopoly

3. INDUSTRIAL WORKERS IN THE NEW ECONOMY

a. The Immigrant Workforce

b. Wages and Working Conditions

c. Women and Children at Work

d. The Struggle to Unionize

e. The Great Railroad Strike

f. The Knights of Labor

g. The AFL

h. The Homestead Strike

i. The Pullman Strike

j. Sources of Labor Weakness

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...

• big business
• subsidies
• conspicuous consumption
• political machines
• laissez faire economics
• urbanization
• monopolies
• People's (Populist) Party
• settlement houses
• Gilded Age
• Social Darwinism
• women's clubs
• Social Gospel

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• American Federation of Labor
• Andrew Carnegie
• Edward Bellamy
• Eugene V. Debs
• Frederick Winslow Taylor
• Gospel of Wealth
• Haymarket bombing
• Henry Clay Frick
• Henry Ford
• Henry George
• Homestead Strike
• Horatio Alger
• horizontal integration
• John D. Rockefeller
• John Peter Altgeld
• J.P. Morgan
• Knights of Labor
• "Molly Maguires"
• National Labor Union
• Pullman Strike
• Samuel Gompers
• Social Darwinism
• vertical integration
• Wilbur and Orville Wright

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